Forbo Marmoleum Flooring
Forbo natural flooring product has been featured and discussed on AT before, but we'd like to focus on the design (color!) components as much as the green ones. The linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, and...
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Look! Marmoleum Ingredients (for Breakfast?)
West Coast Green 2008
Last week, we spent some time chatting with the people at the West Coast Green Marmoleum booth. They were saying something about how easy it is to install when we were distracted by some sort of grano...
Green Flooring: RetroPlate
(Hello to Rachel, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Comments are welcome!) If you have concrete floor that needs a little revamping, but don't want to get close...
TING Vintage Belt Floor Mat
Remember TING? They're the ones who make those cool pillows and hammocks out of seat belts. Well, we have no place for a hammock, but we did just come across this floor mat. It's a little pricey, ...
EcoTimber introduces Formaldehyde-Free Bamboo Flooring
The striped pattern characteristic of bamboo flooring is a byproduct of the production process. Many strips of bamboo are glued together, and then the strips are heated and compressed to set the glue...
Green Idea: Local Wood
If you've decided that there might be something to the locavore thing, wouldn't it make sense to practice the same ideas when it comes to building products? North America is fairly rich in wood resou...
Some Smith & Fong Bamboo to be FSC Certified
Bamboo is one of those products about which it's easy to make assumptions. It's easy to assume bamboo is green. It's easy to assume bamboo is renewable. It's easy to assume that because it's natura...
Peach Pit Floors
The Peach Pit floor we spotted over at inhabitat falls into the category of super cool, if not yet super green......
Eco-Friendly Flooring
A friend recently inquired about finding sources for reclaimed and sustainable woods. They weren't looking for lumber for their flooring in this case, but for an art project. But it did get us started...
Why It's Green: Bamboo
Bamboo -- it's everywhere. If it exists (take computer mouses and utensils for example) it can be made using bamboo. But, how green does that make it? Well, when it comes to computer mouses, we're ...
Cork Tile Revisited
Long before the days when we were part of the AT team, we sent in this question (Good Questions: A Cork Tile Dilemma) for a little help from the experts (aka AT readers). Being completely indecisive...
Good Question: Colorful Cork?
(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com) In our new kitchen, we want t...
August Best Posts: A Staple-less Stapler, Marmoleum Click by Forbo, and Vivaterra
Check out staplers without staples, super green flooring, and all the good stuff at Vivaterra. [links after the jump] ...
What Makes It Green? Linoleum
First off, let's define the terms: we're talking about linoleum, not sheet vinyl, though the two terms are used interchangeably these days. Sheet vinyl is flooring made out of plastic: the same stuff...
Ecodomo Recycled Leather Tiles
In leather, fall colors really get rich and sumptuous. These recycled leather tiles by Ecodomo come in three textures and even more colors... posted originally from: AT:New York...
Bamboo: Is It Really As Eco As We Think?
We have been talking up the benefits of bamboo flooring for a while now. We were so into the fact that the easily grown wood (grass, actually) not only helped in stopping the depletion of forests, et ...
Marmoleum Click by Forbo
We fell in love with Marmoleum the first time we set foot on it in a (green) remodeled Craftsman in Ventura, Ca. It's so bright, and playful, and we'd never seen anything like it before. The linoleu...
Top 10: Cork Suppliers
OK, so you've decided a cork floor is for you. There are a ton of options: glue down or floating, natural or stained, polyurethane or wax. These decisions are much easier when you're familiar with th...
Good Question: Green Flooring
Jennifer wrote in with this question: Hi, We bought a 70's brick ranch near the coast & are fixing it up to move into in a year or so. It currently has carpet throughout the house (even in the kitche...
Rethinking: Beyond Polyurethane
In a past life, we've fielded a lot of questions on what the best kind of floor finish is, and it usually goes something like this: "should I use water- or oil-based polyurethane?" Occasionally, so...
Why It's Green: A Molecular Mystery
We love cork flooring. It's natural, renewable, and amazingly durable, and it looks great, too. If you're sometimes a bit of a klutz or you throw what my mother euphemistically refers to as "very...
ModuTiles Cork Flooring by Mio
We once became so disgusted with some dark, ugly, dirty industrial carpeting in an apartment's entry that we finally just ripped it out one day. We ended up putting down cheap strips of seagrass m...
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